The future of journalism and citizenship - Society and Culture - AEI


Artigo de Christopher Caldwell para o American Enterprise Institute

The future of journalism and citizenship - Society and Culture - AEI

In 2012, the Pulitzer Prize committee awarded the prize for breaking news reporting to the Tuscaloosa News in Alabama for its coverage of a wave of tornados that had swept through Alabama and other southern states the previous spring. There had been hundreds of dead and missing. Buildings were smashed or lost power—and one was the paper’s printing plant. While the News was getting its operations up and running at another plant 

50 miles away, it used Google Documents and social media to report on storm developments and coordinate searches for missing persons. . . .